Bettina Linn Explained

Bettina Linn
Birth Name:Mary Bettina Linn
Birth Date:1905
Birth Place:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Death Date:April 7, 1962
Death Place:Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Occupation:Writer, college professor

Mary Bettina Linn (1905 – April 7, 1962) was an American writer and college professor. She wrote three published novels, and was on the faculty at Bryn Mawr College. She worked with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.

Early life

Linn was from Overbrook, Pennsylvania, the daughter of William Bomberger Linn and Josephine Stewart Wood Linn. Her father was a judge on Pennsylvania's State Supreme Court.[1] She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1926,[2] and earned a master's degree there in 1929.[3]

Career

Linn was a professor at Bryn Mawr College beginning in 1934, and held the Margaret Kingsland Haskell Chair as a professor of English from 1957 until her death in 1962.[4] In the 1950s, she was active with the Three-College Russia Committee, and invited speakers to campus, including British theorist Isaiah Berlin[5] and Southern writer Eudora Welty.[6] One of her students was Joanna Semel Rose.[7]

During World War II, Linn worked with the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, as a researcher and analyst in the Russia division.[8]

Publications

Linn published two short stories with patriotic themes in St. Nicholas Magazine when she was a teenager.[9] She also wrote articles and at least one book review for the Yale Review. She published two novels in her lifetime.[10] [11] The second, A Letter to Elizabeth (1957), won the Philadelphia Athenaeum Fiction Award in 1958.[12] A British reviewer said, "Miss Linn has created two beautifully three-dimensional characters who nearly steal the limelight."[13] A third novel by Linn was published posthumously in 1965.[14] [15]

Personal life

Linn died in 1962, at the age of 56, in Bryn Mawr.

Notes and References

  1. News: 1950-06-13 . Justice W. B. Linn, 78, State Supreme Court Justice, Dies . 2 . Shamokin News-Dispatch . 2022-07-21 . Newspapers.com.
  2. Bryn Mawr College, Class of 1926 (1926 yearbook): 72, 102, 117.
  3. News: 1962-04-08 . Bettina Linn Dies; Author, Teacher; Prize-Winning Novelist Was Professor at Bryn Mawr . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-07-20 . 0362-4331.
  4. News: April 11, 1962 . Miss Linn . 1 . The College News . July 20, 2022.
  5. Book: Hardy . Henry . The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism . Berlin . Isaiah . 2016-08-23 . Brookings Institution Press . 978-0-8157-2888-7 . en.
  6. Book: Marrs, Suzanne . What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell . 2011-05-12 . HMH . 978-0-547-54924-8 . 129, 409 . en.
  7. Bryn Mawr College . 1962 . Miss Linn's Death . Annual Report of the President . 12 . Internet Archive.
  8. News: 1962-04-08 . Bettina Linn, Novelist, Dies in Bryn Mawr . 51 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 2022-07-21 . Newspapers.com.
  9. McKenzie, Andrea. "A 'Revolutionary' War?: Girls Writing Girls in America’s St. Nicholas Magazine" in Lissa Paul, Rosemary R. Johnston, Emma Short, eds., Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War (Routledge 2015).
  10. News: Young . Thelma Pearson . 1957-06-16 . She met her parents--after 16 years of life . 80 . The Birmingham News . 2022-07-21 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: Moore . Harry N. . 1936-04-04 . 'Flea Circus', a Social Study by Bettina Linn . 11 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 2022-07-21 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1958-04-15 . Miss Bowen Receives Athenaeum Award at Authors Luncheon . 29 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 2022-07-21 . Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1958-02-14 . Distinction . 7 . Sevenoaks Chronicle, Westerham Courier and Kentish Advertiser . 2022-07-21 . Newspapers.com.
  14. News: Wordsworth . Christopher . 1965-07-09 . New Fiction: Faces of Jane . 8 . The Guardian . 2022-07-21 . Newspapers.com.
  15. Hoffman . Frederick J. . 1965 . Review of After the Wedding Anniversary . The Kenyon Review . 27 . 3 . 568–569 . 4334580 . 0163-075X.
  16. Book: Linn, Bettina . Flea circus . 1936 . English . 1302730684.
  17. News: Boris . Theodolinda C. . 1936-03-14 . Too Many Rings . 41 . Buffalo Evening News . 2022-07-21 . Newspapers.com.
  18. Linn, Bettina. "The Fiction of the Future." Yale Review 34 (1945): 241-253.
  19. Book: Linn, Bettina . A Letter to Elizabeth . 1957 . Lippincott . en.
  20. News: 1957-09-08 . Love-Child's First Visit with Father . 50 . Fort Lauderdale News . 2022-07-21 . Newspapers.com.
  21. Book: Linn, Bettina . After the Wedding Anniversary . 1965 . A. S. Barnes . en.

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